Why so few women on the street at night"Why so few women on the street at night is another brilliant offering from the87press." Bhanu Kapil A searing and multi form debut from Palestinian human rights activist and theorist Sarona Abuaker. Complete with images from performance pieces, essays, fragments of theory and notebooks, these are poems that engage the reader in thinking about liberation. For Fans of: Anna Mendelssohn, Ghassan Kanafani, Mira Mattar, Adania Shibli.

A true citizen poet

as a man whose ethnic heritage was both African and Indian in a country whose politics have been stymied by its ethnic divisions

to ‘The Interior of Gaaldine’

the child of Mumma’s carer who has left him in the sisters’ capable hands

Off the Wall is a lively guide to the idiosyncrasies of Hadrian’s Wall and the communities that live at either end and along the route

but who don’t hate cities

Two Little Ducks

unforced flowers

Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2006

and some year-round menus

invites us to leap into deep space - across a universe where light

but all have at their centre the desire to cauterise the deceits of language